Meat Is Not Good For The Planet, People, Eat Less ..

Avoiding meat is one of the most significant ways to reduce your impact on Earth.

“Our planet is actually like a giant meat farm now. Seriously. There’s us people, 7.7 billion of us, and a ton of livestock animals, 70 billion or so, being fattened for our plates. Plus, most of the world’s agricultural land is being used for livestock, for grazing or to grow feed.

Wildlife? The numbers just don’t compare. Only 4% of all mammals are in the wild. Consider: there are perhaps 300 tigers left in Malaysia, but the number of broiler chickens (chicken for meat) raised in Malaysia in 2018 was estimated at 770 million birds.”



Meat production produces damaging greenhouse gases and is a culprit behind water pollution, deforestation and biodiversity loss. The planet simply cannot sustain our current meat intake levels.

Source: https://www.star2.com/living/2019/01/13/eat-less-meat/

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